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Democracy is simply a rule by majority opinion.

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The above statement is false.
Democracy goes beyond simple majority rule. To ensure that governments function to represent the dominant viewpoint, the majority must always cooperate with the minority. It is also essential to ensure that majority rule does not convert to the rule of the majority community in terms of race, religion, linguistic group, etc. Rule by majority indicates that various individuals or organisations may be able to create a majority in any given decision or election. Only when every person has a possibility of being in the majority at some point in time will democracy be democratic. Otherwise, democracy does not remain inclusive for all. The correct statement should be that democracy is not simply the rule of the majority because, in democracy, it is considered that the majority does not dominate the views of the minority.

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